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Buck Blunder 1 - Buck Martinez calls everything a little looper. A little looper should be a short looping ball that the OF or IF will have to make a really good play to get it.

“The snaps an 8 straight game streak where the opponent has scored first.” Hey Buck, you do realize that the word “straight” doesn’t belong in that sentence, don’t you? It just makes your sentence hard to understand as any streak already means a string of consecutive games.

In the bottom of 3rd, Buck was complaining that everything in the game since he has played now favors the hitters. He said that back in his playing days, deliberately hitting batters was part of the game so batters knew how to get out of the way. He then said that everything in baseball has been “legislated” in favor of the batters because pitchers will get ejected for throwing at batters and that the strike zone is now smaller because of the use of Pitch Tracker etc.

Ummm no Buck, the official strike zone has gotten bigger since you played and has always went up to the “midpoint’. It now also goes down to the bottom of the batter’s knees. And realisticly, the umpires back in your playing day weren’t calling strikes above the waist. This means that the strike zone is bigger than before, so how has everything changed in favor of the hitters?

Before the start of 6th, Buck and Pat were talking about your chances of getting a souvenir baseball from Brett Lawrie are increased if you wear a Jays jersey. Pat then said “wear a Lawrie Jersey” would give you a really good chance at getting Lawrie to throw you a baseball. How would Lawrie know that that the fan is a wearing a Lawrie Jersey when the name and number are on the back. And if you are showing your back to Lawrie, he can’t throw you a baseball.

Buck is driving me nuts. In the top of the 6th, he was talking about some game that Hutchison started that went 12 innings. He kept rambling on about it but he never stops/pauses properly after any sentence.

Buck said that the head groundskeeper had a weather radar in her hand and there were thunderstorms in the area. I didn’t know that being a groundskeeper would qualify someone to be able to properly interpret a weather radar. Is the groundskeeper also a meteorologist? Most likely she had an internet connected device that gave a detailed weather forecast or it could have been a radio to communicate with some weather experts. I just find it highly unlikely that someone who is not an expert in weather would be able to use/or would be responsible for using a weather radar to make such a thunderstorm prediction.

Buck said that it was getting cooler and that was usually an indication of a thunderstorm coming. It’s always seemed to me that it gets hotter before a thunderstorm and cooler AFTER the thunderstorm. maybe buck means that the winds are picking up or that the air pressure is changing? I think that would make more sense.